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Student-Run Free Clinics Stand at a Critical Junction Between Undergraduate Medical Education, Clinical Care, and Advocacy
- Source :
- Acad Med
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2022.
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Abstract
- Student-run free clinics (SRFCs) act as primary care providers that bring health care to populations in need and are an important source of undergraduate medical education (UME), guiding trainees through the art of history taking and physical examination. However, they are also social justice and advocacy initiatives-addressing disparity in access to care and educating medical trainees with firsthand exposure to socioeconomic determinants of health and language and medical illiteracy barriers. The authors present an examination of the impact of SRFCs, supported by academic literature, in their 3 roles as medical care providers, as a component of medical education, and as advocacy organizations. Based on the evidence of that literature and decades of direct SRFC leadership experience, the authors make the case that SRFCs deserve a prominent role in the discussion of how UME institutions contribute to correcting health care disparities and to serving social justice reform.
- Subjects :
- Medical education
medicine.diagnostic_test
Student Run Clinic
business.industry
MEDLINE
Physical examination
General Medicine
Ambulatory Care Facilities
Article
Education
Leadership
Social Justice
Health care
medicine
Humans
Medical history
Social determinants of health
Clinical care
Psychology
business
Socioeconomic status
Functional illiteracy
Education, Medical, Undergraduate
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10402446
- Volume :
- 97
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Academic Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....20893e836687fdc944c3154a44be584a